They are going to dance the pavane almost at once," she murmured.
They are to dance a pavane in the ball-room and I have to ask for instructions and hand them on.
The pavane was danced in the middle of the room, to an old trailing melody: a long, winding curve of graceful steps, deep bows and satin gleaming with sudden lustre like that of porcelain .
The pavane ended, and Monsieur de Stafforth led Wilhelmine to a seat near the daïs, where she found Madame de Ruth resplendent in a green court dress.
So pavane followed gavotte and sarabande and the more modern minuet, and the ball was very brilliant and gay.
Will you honour us by stepping the pavane with us, Marquise?
The stately pavane suited the movements of her willowy figure, which appeared quite untrammelled, easy and full of spring, even within the narrow confines of the fashionable corslet.
Therefore a measured and stately gavotte was danced by the young people every Thursday, and perhaps a majestic pavane afterward.
Sir Owen was extraordinarily pleased and interested, and declared the pavane to be as complete as a sonata by Bach or Beethoven; but his appreciation was suddenly interrupted by someone looking at him.
One of the pieces they had heard was a pavane for five viols and a harpsichord, composed by Ferrabosco, son of the Italian musician who had settled in Greenwich at the end of the sixteenth century.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pavane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
